Pure evasion builds feel completely miserable and not viable at all

Once again, I have tried to make a pure evasion build work, and it just doesn't work. You get one shot way too often. Please, fix defenses in this game. They have been so bad and so unbalanced since launch. ES has been and is still the only thing that remotely matters. It's beyond tiring at this point.

Damage taken from mana before life and deflection can help a lot.

You can be fairly tanky with high evasion + deflection + block + damage taken from mana.

Phys damage as an element gear can also make a huge difference.

You might not survive the big wind-up boss attacks, but that will get you through the majority of the game.

Yup game is unbalanced junk and probably will only get worse every patch based on the way its been going since 0.1

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avastcosmicarena#5899 wrote:

Once again, I have tried to make a pure evasion build work, and it just doesn't work. You get one shot way too often. Please, fix defenses in this game. They have been so bad and so unbalanced since launch. ES has been and is still the only thing that remotely matters. It's beyond tiring at this point.

The build in my signature allowed me to facetank abyssal rares and kill ubers on normal. It's from 0.3, so the tree is different now, but you'll get the gist.

1) Spec into Blind. Put Blind II on Wind Dancer.
2) Get immunity to being Blinded. (You must take Chakra of Sight.)
3) Get defense against Maim.

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DistributedAutomaton#5739 wrote:

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avastcosmicarena#5899 wrote:

Once again, I have tried to make a pure evasion build work, and it just doesn't work. You get one shot way too often. Please, fix defenses in this game. They have been so bad and so unbalanced since launch. ES has been and is still the only thing that remotely matters. It's beyond tiring at this point.

The build in my signature allowed me to facetank abyssal rares and kill ubers on normal. It's from 0.3, so the tree is different now, but you'll get the gist.

1) Spec into Blind. Put Blind II on Wind Dancer.
2) Get immunity to being Blinded. (You must take Chakra of Sight.)
3) Get defense against Maim.

The problem with the build you have linked is that it has virtually 0 offense whatsoever. And no rarity.

I am currently playing a grenades/explosive shot pathfinder and also using the elemental dmg reduction ascendancy node, btw. But I don't have nearly as much evasion, because I am using constricting command and getting movement speed, damage, etc. from being Surrounded. I'd have to sacrifice all of that for a rare helmet, which would destroy my offenses, which already is not enough to allow me to skip mechanics on the T3 pinnacle bosses or citadel bosses.

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Pure evasion builds feel completely miserable and not viable at all

Nope

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DistributedAutomaton#5739 wrote:

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avastcosmicarena#5899 wrote:

Once again, I have tried to make a pure evasion build work, and it just doesn't work. You get one shot way too often. Please, fix defenses in this game. They have been so bad and so unbalanced since launch. ES has been and is still the only thing that remotely matters. It's beyond tiring at this point.

The build in my signature allowed me to facetank abyssal rares and kill ubers on normal. It's from 0.3, so the tree is different now, but you'll get the gist.

1) Spec into Blind. Put Blind II on Wind Dancer.
2) Get immunity to being Blinded. (You must take Chakra of Sight.)
3) Get defense against Maim.

Nice yea clearly if built correctly you can make something evasion wise work, its just a matter of getting something put together is all.

Not "pure evasion" being a problem at all, but rather a build problem.

For some reason players still defend Armor and Evasion because they "made it work" when ES barely has to try with 9k, 2s Recharge time and 1k/s recharge. They're not even close.

It's hardly like ES can't do these tricks too. You just don't need to.

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Mashgesture#2912 wrote:

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Pure evasion builds feel completely miserable and not viable at all

Nope

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DistributedAutomaton#5739 wrote:

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avastcosmicarena#5899 wrote:

Once again, I have tried to make a pure evasion build work, and it just doesn't work. You get one shot way too often. Please, fix defenses in this game. They have been so bad and so unbalanced since launch. ES has been and is still the only thing that remotely matters. It's beyond tiring at this point.

The build in my signature allowed me to facetank abyssal rares and kill ubers on normal. It's from 0.3, so the tree is different now, but you'll get the gist.

1) Spec into Blind. Put Blind II on Wind Dancer.
2) Get immunity to being Blinded. (You must take Chakra of Sight.)
3) Get defense against Maim.

Nice yea clearly if built correctly you can make something evasion wise work, its just a matter of getting something put together is all.

Not "pure evasion" being a problem at all, but rather a build problem.

There's no way he's doing citadel bosses, max juice T16 abyss maps, etc. with offense that low. This is 100% a balance problem. ES builds can be MORE than this tanky while having tons of offense. He has had to sacrifice basically all offensive power to do this.

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avastcosmicarena#5899 wrote:

There's no way he's doing citadel bosses, max juice T16 abyss maps, etc. with offense that low. This is 100% a balance problem. ES builds can be MORE than this tanky while having tons of offense. He has had to sacrifice basically all offensive power to do this.

Goal post shift nice. And untrue.


Your posts premise has changed.


First it was: (these are your words)
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pure evasion builds are miserable and not viable at all

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ES has been and is still the only thing that remotely matters

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There's no way he's doing citadel bosses, max juice T16 abyss maps, etc. with offense that low.

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ES builds can be MORE than this tanky while having tons of offense.

These are personal build issue problems I am afraid. You have a poster in here that even disproved it.

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DistributedAutomaton#5739 wrote:

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avastcosmicarena#5899 wrote:

Once again, I have tried to make a pure evasion build work, and it just doesn't work. You get one shot way too often. Please, fix defenses in this game. They have been so bad and so unbalanced since launch. ES has been and is still the only thing that remotely matters. It's beyond tiring at this point.

The build in my signature allowed me to facetank abyssal rares and kill ubers on normal. It's from 0.3, so the tree is different now, but you'll get the gist.

1) Spec into Blind. Put Blind II on Wind Dancer.
2) Get immunity to being Blinded. (You must take Chakra of Sight.)
3) Get defense against Maim.

First Approach also provides immunity to Blind if you are full HP :)